Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Language Woes---Innocuous but annoying

 Language is a continually evolving structure, but do the changes have to be so gross, ugly and just plain annoying. So the word Black is capitalized but even combined with another marginalized segment of society, the word brown is  not. Jack fell down and broke their crown. To heck with subject verb agreement. The word before has been replaced by ahead of.* Sounds cooler, I suppose. The word furbaby has been coined and people voluntarily use it. Sort of along the lines of furhat, I suppose. 

  Now the powers that be in the written media have decided to have parents "share" their children or offspring. Not that the parents are necessarily divorced or separated, but a common expression denoting, I guess it could be more,  that the kids have 2 parents. Used to be that parents or others shared custody, but no, now it's the sharing of their actual physical being. Sharing in this sense would best be defined as having a portion of something split with others. Can you really share a child. Ask Solomon. 

* And the replacement of the word "from" by "out of." If you want to sound like a police report.


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